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Byline: Merve Emre Back from the Dead The afterlife of Susan Taubes. In Sigmund Freud's 'Rat Man,' a case history of a neurotic young man, there is a curious footnote [...]

Byline: Merve Emre Marvellous Things The worlds of Italo Calvino. The bookstore in your neighborhood sits on a busy corner. You pass it on your walk to work in the [...]

Byline: Merve Emre Everyone's a Critic What are literary studies for? Of the character sketches that the English satirist Samuel Butler wrote in the mid-seventeenth century-among them 'A Degenerate Noble,' [...]

Byline: Merve Emre The Mind's Eye Gerald Murnane's recursive retrospects. On most evenings this past spring, the man who lives across the street sat at his small desk, turned on [...]

In the first pages of his new novel, Crossroads, Jonathan Franzen introduces us to Russ Hildebrandt, a man who, soon after, berates himself as a 'fatuous, obsolete, repellent clown.' Three [...]

Byline: Merve Emre Bodies Politic How Cristina Rivera Garza's fiction reconceives desire. The 'Torso of Adéle' is among the smallest and most sensual of Auguste Rodin's partial figures. She has [...]

Byline: Merve Emre Getting to Yes The making of 'Ulysses.' The Twitter account UlyssesReader is what programmers call a 'corpus-fed bot.' The corpus on which it feeds is James Joyce's [...]

Byline: Merve Emre Bewitched The mystical modernism of Mary Butts. Many people in England think of Dorset as Thomas Hardy country. They have been to Dorchester or Weymouth, have driven [...]

Byline: Merve Emre Sentimental Education Simone de Beauvoir's lost novel of early love. The legend of Simone de Beauvoir-of how an obedient Catholic schoolgirl cast off her rigid, patriarchal upbringing [...]

Byline: Merve Emre School of Hard Knocks A philosophical novel about adolescent bullying. In an age of voice-driven fiction, the phrase 'novel of ideas' has an unavoidably dusty ring. It [...]

Byline: Merve Emre The Politics of Feeling A quarter century of emotional intelligence. My parents did not often concern themselves with my moral education, but, when they did, whatever wisdom [...]

NO ONE IS TALKING ABOUT THISBy Patricia Lockwood ''The only solution to the internet was to write bad novels with central personages who do not appear. ''The only solution was [...]

Byline: Merve Emre Extravagant Creatures Leonora Carrington's matriarchal Surrealism. When asked to describe the circumstances of her birth, the Surrealist painter and writer Leonora Carrington liked to tell people that [...]

Byline: Merve Emre Tricked Out Our love-hate relationship with gimmicks. When Jennifer Egan's novel 'A Visit from the Goon Squad' won the Pulitzer Prize, in 2011, much fuss was made [...]

Byline: Merve Emre Aging Ungracefully Sigrid Nunez's women confront the indignities of their declining years. Life is short, it is said, though not as short as the vast majority of [...]

The article presents the discussion on Sir Thomas Browne, Thomas Fuller, and Abraham Cowley each of the essayists unwilling to disentangle the individual from the condition of man or nature.

LANDSLIDE: TRUE STORIES BY MINNA ZALLMAN PROCTOR NEW YORK: CATAPULT. 160 PAGES. $17. 'Creating a narrative is a process,' announces Minna Zallman Proctor in 'Folie a deux,' the first piece [...]

The article presents a conversation between literary critic Merve Emre and novelist Deborah Levy about author Virginia Woolf and her works. Topics covered include their first reading of the novel "Mrs. Dalloway," how Woolf is insecure about her own writing and how Woolf's novels, namely "Mrs. Dalloway," "A Room of One's Own" and "Three Guineas are satires of the ruling lass and of its ways of being.

The article offers information about Saverio Costanzo, the 43-year-old director of the HBO limited series "My Brilliant Friend" and his ghost named Elena Ferrante, the pseudonymous author of the four beloved Neapolitan novels, of which "My Brilliant Friend" is the first to be adapted for television. Information on Ferrante's characters is presented.

A literary criticism of the book "The Lying Life of Adults," by Elena Ferrante, is presented. Topics discussed include the concept of lying through literary fiction according to Ferrante, link between the acts of lying and the stage of adolescence, and the novel's description as disillusionment based on the perception of literary critic Georg Lukács.